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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Pied Beauty

In the Author's Preface to Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, he describes this poem as Curtal-Sonnet «that is they are constructed in proportions resembling those of the sonnet proper, namely 6 + 4 instead of 8 + 6,...

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George Parsons Lathrop - Ghosts of Growth

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Ghosts of Growth by George Parsons Lathrop. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 20, 2019. — The poet describes the beauties of nature after a snow...

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Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own

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Thomas Moore - Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of «The Minstrel Boy» and «The Last Rose of Summer». Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is...

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Arthur Hugh Clough - Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth

Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough, who became principal of Newnham...

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Rupert Brooke - Charm

To all who knew him, the man himself was at least as important as his work. «As to his talk» — I quote again from Mr. Somerset — «he was a spendthrift. I mean that he never saved anything up as those writer fellows so...

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Alice Meynell - Moon To The Sun

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. Preludes (1875) was her first poetry collection, illustrated by her elder sister Elizabeth...

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Virna Sheard - When Christmas Comes

Virna Stanton was born in Cobourg, Ontario, the daughter of Elizabeth Butler Stanton and Eldridge Stanton, a photographer. Her brother Eldridge Stanton Jr. and his wife both died at Niagara Falls, in the Ice Bridge...

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John William Streets - Challenge

The editor of the volume Made in the Trenches includes these poignant notes: Corporal Streets, in submitting these sonnets some months ago, wrote: «They express not only my feelings but the feelings of thousands...

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Madison Cawein - Don Quixote

Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He...

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Rudyard Kipling - I Keep Six Honest Serving-men

This poem about a child's inquisitiveness, follows the short story The Elephant's Child in Rudyard KIpling's Just So Stories. (1902) — Summary by David Lawrence

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Madison Cawein - Old Inn

Madison Julius Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. — Summary by...

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Emily Brontë - Hope

Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë...

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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